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B.Ed.

ASSIGNMENTS

B. Ed. (IInd Year)

(January, 2011)

School of Education
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Maidan, Garhi, New Delhi - 110068
 Assignments
B.Ed (IInd Year)

ES-334 : Education and Society

Assignment 1

Answer the following questions in about 1500 words total. (i.e. 500 words each)

i) Illustrate the individual aims of education with suitable example

ii) Define ‘Naturalism’ and explain its importance in teaching-learning

iii) You as a teacher must have felt the need to reform examination system. Discuss your views
of reforms in examination system with parents’, students’ and prepare report on it.

ES – 335: TEACHER AND SCHOOL

Assignment – 01

Answer the following questions in about 1500 words.

a) Explain the meaning and characteristics of a profession. Do you consider teaching as a

profession? Justify your answer.
(500 Words)

b) Identify a problem which you face in your school. Discuss the decision – making process you
will adopt to find out the solution to the problem.
(500 Words)

c) ‘A School can contribute to community activities and the realities in the community can be
transformed as learning experiences in the school’. Prepare a detailed plan of action for
implementation to achieve the above objective at secondary level during the academic session
2012 – 2013.
(500 Words)

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ES – 361: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Assignment – 01

Answer the following questions in about 1500 words.

a) Differentiate between software and hardware approaches to educational technology. Discuss

the scope of educational technology.
(500 Words)

b) What are strengths and weaknesses of audio and video programmes? Describe how you, as a
teacher, will ensure effective utilization of audio and video programmes in your class.
(500 Words)

c) Visit any two secondary schools in your locality. Find out from the Principals and teachers
various educational technologies used in the instructional process. Select any five
technologies out of these technologies. Also find out from the principal and teachers how
these technologies are managed from production/ purchase stage to evaluation of student
learning outcomes. Prepare a report on your findings.

(500 Words)

ES-362 : Computers in Education

Assignment 1

Answer the following questions in about 1500 words total. (i.e. 500 words each)

(i) Describe media selection issues associated with design and development of CBI course
wares.

(ii) Describe briefly system software tools for computer based teaching.

(iii) Discuss computer based administration of student data with examples.

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ES-363 : Guidance and Counselling

Assignment 1

Answer the following questions in about 1500 words total. (i.e. 500 words each)

(i) Explain problems involved in evaluation in counselling.

(ii) Discuss clarification and filing in information collection under occupational

information.

(iii) Discuss Ginzberg’s theory of career development highlighting its implications for
counselling.

ES-364 : Distance Education

Assignment 1

Answer the following questions in about 1500 words total. (i.e. 500 words each)

(i) Describe the origin, growth and status of distance education in India.

(ii) What do you understand by multiple media approach to open and distance learning?
Explain the importance of media integration in development of self-learning (self-
instructional) materials.

(iii) Identify the major problems associated with effective delivery of distance education
programmes, with special reference to student support structure/services. Offer your
suggestions, with examples, for addressing each of the identified problems.